This is a RETIRED (no longer active)group blog where filmmakers will talk about their films in distribution (any kind of distro: film fest, DVD, VOD, mail-order, theatrical, etc., as long as the film is or will soon be available for the general public to view) and other related topics. Enjoy. Blog Copyright 2006 Sujewa Ekanayake. Content of each individual entry is the property of its author.

Friday, June 30, 2006

American Messiah & Chris Hansen in Kensington, MD on Thu July 6

Texas based indie film director & screenwriting professor Chris Hansen and his funny & excellent movie The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah are coming to the DC area on Thu July 6. The film is about a man who believes that he is a regional Messiah, & his quest to find a special mission from God. Messiah will play at Kensington, MD's Kensington Row Bookshop as a part of the Capital City Microcinema screening series. Read all thelife-changing information below:

" Chris Hansen's The Proper Care and Feeding of an American Messiah (official website) is a mock documentary that follows Brian (Dustin Olson), a balding thirtysomething who believes that he is a messiah. Not the messiah, Brian persistently reminds the unseen documentary filmmaker (played by the director), but a regionally-selected messiah for a "100-mile radius," Brian estimates. Brian's delusions of grandeur are supported by his younger brother, Aaron, who admires his older brother, and his sister, Miriam, who recognizes Brian's problems but seeks to prevent him from harming himself. The film is structured around a brief interlude in Brian's "career" as he arranges to announce himself and his "higher purpose" to the public at his town's civic center. "- Chuck Tryon, The Chutry ExperimentRead the rest of this review here: http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/005174.html

" What makes American Messiah work is its easy, natural feel. At few points, if any, does the star, Dustin Olson, really FEEL like he's "acting". Instead, he feels more improvised and natural, like a real-life deluded guy being interviewed for a documentary."- J.C. Macek III, WorldsGreatestCritic.comhttp://worldsgreatestcritic.com/americanmessiah.html